March 21, 2014
Pennsylvania Requires Utility to Include 1-Year Average Price to Compare on Bills
The Pennsylvania PUC has ordered that Pike County Light & Power electric "customer bills" shall list a one-year average Price to Compare
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March 20, 2014
Ohio Accelerates Transition to Auction-Supplied Default Service at Dayton Power & Light
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, in a rehearing order, adopted an accelerated schedule for the transition to fully auction-sourced Standard Service Offer supplies at Dayton Power & Light.
March 19, 2014
Michigan Sets Expedited Review of Polar Vortex-Driven Hike in Consumers GCR Factor
The Michigan PSC set an expedited schedule to consider Consumers Energy Company's request for authority to immediately increase its gas cost recovery (GCR) factor.
March 13, 2014
PUC Directs PECO to Publish Price to Compare 45 Days Prior to Delivery, Not 75 Days
In a written order reconsidering PECO's proposal to allow electric Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers to shop for a competitive supplier, the PUC has directed that PECO maintain the current schedule of publishing the Price to Compare 45 days prior to the effective date.
March 11, 2014
NorthBridge Principal: "No Convincing Evidence" Shortening Default Service From 24-Month Horizon Would Better Facilitate Retail Market
The next time you see a study by The NorthBridge Group touting a centralized capacity market, or how a capacity market wouldn't cost materially any more than an energy-only market, keep in mind the following testimony from Scott Fisher, Principal with The NorthBridge Group, who was testifying on…
March 7, 2014
PUC Zeroes-In on Market-Skewing Problem of Default Service, In Denying Rehearing of PECO CAP Rate Order
With respect to rate issues, the Pennsylvania PUC denied reconsideration of its order granting PECO electric Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers eligibility to shop, with no cap on retail supplier rates, and in doing so, PUC Chairman Robert Powelson and Commissioner Pamela Witmer gave an…
March 6, 2014
Pennsylvania Utility Default Service Rate Approaches 12¢
Pike County Light & Power's residential default service rate for the period starting March 1 is almost 12¢/kWh.
March 5, 2014
Say What? Pennsylvania Utility Seeking Nonbypassable Surcharge for Excessive Generation Costs Files to LOWER Bypassable Generation Rate on April 1
A Pennsylvania utility seeking to institute a nonbypassable surcharge to recover a default service undercollection resulting from extreme pricing in the PJM market during January has filed to lower its bypassable default service charge by 8% effective April 1.
February 26, 2014
State: Large Number of Retail Suppliers, "Generating Revenues By Offering Consumers Little More Than Higher Prices"
The sweeping changes that the New York PSC has ordered in the retail market were adopted, "[i]n light of the apparent scarcity of energy-related value-added products and services available in the residential and small non-residential markets; the high complaint rates; and what appears to be a large…
February 24, 2014
SHOCK: Pennsylvania Utility Seeks Nonbypassable Charge to Recover Excessive Default Service Costs from January (Change from Quarterly to Annual Reconciliation Backfires)
Citizens' Electric Company of Lewisburg, PA has petitioned the Pennsylvania PUC to institute a nonbypassable charge to recover January default service costs which exceeded the revenues collected from retail rates.
February 21, 2014
PUC Commish: Concerns Regarding PECO CAP Shopping Program Not "Speculative" Given "Recent Volatility"
Concerns that PECO Customer Assistance Program customers will suffer "irreparable harm" under the program adopted by the PUC to allow these customers to shop for their electric supplier are not "speculative," given, "the recent volatility we have seen in the energy markets," Pennsylvania Public…
February 21, 2014
PPL Price to Compare to Increase 12% on March 1
PPL's Price to Compare for small business customers will increase 12% on March 1, which follows an earlier 20% increase which took effect on December 1.
February 19, 2014
United Illuminating Posts New Default Service Rates
United Illuminating has posted new Last Resort Service rates for the three-month period beginning April 1, 2014
February 19, 2014
Connecticut Light & Power Posts New Default Service Rates
Connecticut Light & Power has posted new Last Resort Service rates for the three-month period beginning April 1, 2014 CL&P Last Resort Service Rates, April 2014 - June 2014 (¢/kWh) Rates 39, 41, 55, 56, 57, & 58 (at or over 500 kW): April: 7.262 May: 6.542 June: 7.699 For Last Resort Service rate…
February 17, 2014
PECO Statement on Feb. 13 EnergyChoiceMatters Story on PECO CAP Reconsideration Request
PECO has provided the following statement to EnergyChoiceMatters.com regarding our February 13 story concerning its request for reconsideration of the PUC's recent order on expanding shopping eligibility to electric Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers:
February 13, 2014
PECO Posts Prices from Default Service Procurement
PECO has posted prices from its January procurement of default service supplies, for various periods beginning June 1, 2014.
February 13, 2014
PECO Says PUC Order Means Non-Shopping Customers Will Unjustly Subsidize Polar Vortex Rates of Retail Suppliers
Update, 2/14 : This story has been revised based on responses from PECO. PECO's full statement appears at the bottom of the story:
February 13, 2014
New Jersey Basic Generation Service Rates to Fall at 3 Utilities, Increase at PSE&G Only Due to Transmission
New Jersey basic generation service electric rates will again decrease on June 1 for three of the state's utilities, with only PSE&G seeing a slight increase in rates unrelated to competitive generation costs, according to the result of the BPU's Basic Generation Service Auction.
February 10, 2014
BGE Files New SOS Rates
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed with the Maryland PSC new Type II SOS rates for the period March 1, 2014 to May 31, 2014.
February 10, 2014
NEM Working on Self-Policing, Potential "Seal of Approval" for Retail Energy Industry
The National Energy Marketers Association announced that its members are working on examining and developing the next steps, after NEM's National Standards of Conduct, to ensure a positive energy consumer shopping experience, including potentially self-policing mechanisms and/or a NEM seal of…
February 10, 2014
N.Y. ESCOs Again Protest Against "Pricing Inequity" Reflected in Default Service Rates
Several ESCOs have renewed their protest at the New York PSC concerning the "pricing inequity" which the ESCOs alleged is embedded in the default service rates charged by KeySpan New York and KeySpan Long Island.
February 6, 2014
Residential, Commercial SOS Rates to Rise at Maryland Utility
Potomac Edison has filed with the Maryland PSC new residential and Type I SOS rates for the period beginning June 1, 2014, and new Type II SOS rates for the period beginning March 1, 2014.
February 4, 2014
Pepco, Delmarva File New SOS Rates
Pepco and Delmarva have filed with the Maryland PSC new Type II SOS rates for the period March 1, 2014 to May 31, 2014.
January 28, 2014
Pepco Residential, Commercial SOS Rates to Decrease
Update 2/10 : This story has been updated to reflect Pepco's revisions to the SOS rates as filed on 2/7
January 28, 2014
PECO Price to Compare to Decrease for Residential, Commercial Customers on March 1
PECO's electric Price to Compare will decrease for residential and commercial customers on March 1.